Richard served from 1970 to 1973 as a Lieutenant in the Dental Corp of the United States Navy, which consists of naval officers with a doctorate in dental surgery to provide dental care for Sailors and Marines to ensure optimal oral health. The Corps’ primary mission is to prevent or remedy oral health conditions that may interfere with the duties of active member of the naval forces. In remote areas, state side, or in overseas locations, the Dental Corp may also treat dependent family members. Richard’s first deployment was to the Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island in South Carolina to perform surgical, restorative and emergency service to prepare Marine recruits for combat within the Vietnam arena, and to provide dependent oral health services as Parris Island was designated as a remote area. His second assignment was aboard the U.S.S. Grand Canyon, a Shenandoah-class destroyer tender reclassified as a repair ship, including a tour in the North Sea servicing the Atlantic Fleet and 6th Fleet, followed by duty at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay providing surgical, prosthetic, restorative and emergency oral health care procedures for the personnel of destroyers and other ships returning from various overseas military locations. Richard is currently on the medical staff at Hoag (Department of HEENT) and Children’s Hospital of Orange County (Section Chairman), is a Faculty member of the Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry at the University of Southern California. He is also the co-founder of Healthy Smiles for Kids of Orange County, a non-profit organization providing oral health care for underserved and underprivileged medically challenged children in Orange County. Richard resides in Newport Beach with his wife Kris.